yum question

[Thad Nielsen]

Peter Horst [phorst at speakeasy.net] wrote:
> FC-5.  A general question about yum - after yum loads its plugins, and 
> reports that it is "Setting up repositories," it seems always to take 
> forever to go through its little motions.  I'm probably just spoiled, 
> but I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it somehow.  In my imagination 
> at least all yum has to do is a few table lookups, and it seems to take 
> way too long (not hours, of course, but just ... a long time).  Am I 
> alone in this?
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
It will try to access a server for about half a minute before giving
up with no response and try another.  But you should see a notice as
it tries another machine.

	T.